{"product_id":"metaphors-of-mind-brad-pasanek-9781421416885","title":"Metaphors of Mind: An Eighteenth-Century Dictionary","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA pathbreaking introduction to eighteenth-century metaphors of the mind that recasts the grand narrative of the Enlightenment in terms of its tropes and figures.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn encyclopedic dictionary along the lines of Voltaire's classic \u003ci\u003eDictionnaire Philosophique\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMetaphors of Mind\u003c\/i\u003e provides an in-depth look at the myriad ways in which Enlightenment writers used figures of speech to characterize the mind. Drawn from Brad Pasanek's massive online archive, http: \/\/metaphorized.net, this volume constitutes a veritable treasury of mental metaphorics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDividing the book into eleven broad metaphorical categories--Animals, Coinage, Court, Empire, Fetters, Impressions, Inhabitants, Metal, Mirror, Rooms, and Writing--Pasanek maps out constellations of metaphors. He frames his collection of literary excerpts in each section with a more descriptive and theoretical discussion of what he calls \"desultory reading,\" a form of unsystematic perusal of writing frequently employed by Enlightenment thinkers. By surveying the printed past alongside the digital present, the book treats eighteenth-century writing as its topic while essentially exemplifying its rhetorical approach.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore than an exercise in quotation, this intellectual history offers illuminating readings of fragmentary literary works and confrontations with neoclassical and contemporary theories of metaphor. The book's entries complicate received ideas about Locke's blank slate, question M. H. Abrams' claims about mirrors and lamps, and chart changing frequencies of metal metaphors in a moment of industrial revolution. The book also responds to current anxieties about reading and the mass digitization of literature, touching on recent discussions of \"distant reading,\" \"shallow reading,\" and \"surface reading.\" Promoting critical and creative anachronism, \u003ci\u003eMetaphors of Mind\u003c\/i\u003e redefines the notion of an archive in the age of Amazon and Google Books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brad Pasanek\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1421416883\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781421416885\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 392\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 5.90w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2016","brand":"Brad Pasanek","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48088212603135,"sku":"9781421416885","price":52.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c4681f83-acf9-4032-963d-0d4b01aef6b5.jpg?v=1769103681","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/metaphors-of-mind-brad-pasanek-9781421416885","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}